Microbiology Seminar Series
2002 - 2003

Tuesdays at Noon, BBRB 170 unless noted otherwise

The 2003-2004 schedule is now available
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2002

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title/Area of Interest
September
Wednesday 4 PM September 11	Dr. Michael Niederweis	Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie Universität Erlangen Erlangen Germany	Microbiology Faculty Candidate Jennifer Foster	"Mycobacterial porins - A way to overcome antibiotic resistance?" Publications Curriculum vitae
September 17	Dr. B.V. Venkataran Prasad	Department of Biochemistry ∓ Molecular Biology Baylor College of Medicine	Microbiology Faculty Candidate Jennifer Foster	"Replication of multisegmented dsRNA viruses: A structural view" Publications Curriculum vitae

October
Wednesday October 2 CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar	Dr. Randy Blakely	Center for Molecular Neuroscience Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Michelle Olson	Neurotransmitter transporters Publications
Monday October 7 CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar	Dr. Axel T. Brunger	Stanford University	Scott Stagg	"Structural and biophysical studies of synaptic vesicle fusion" Publications
October 22	Dr. Roman Tuma	The Biocenter University of Helsinki	Peter Prevelige	"In vitro assembly and replication of dsRNA bacteriophages" Publications
Wednesday October 23 CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar	Dr. Eric Nestler	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	Michelle Olson	Neurobiology of drug addiction Publications
October 29	Dr. Tom Silhavy	Princeton University	Chuck Turnbough	"Pushing the envelope: Extracytoplasmic Stress in E. coli Publications

November
November 5	Dr. Anette Schneemann	Department of Molecular Biology The Scripps Research Institute	Karyn Johnson	Virus structure Publications
November 12	Dr. William G. Kerr	University of South Florida College of Medicine H. Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center	Peter Burrows	"A role for SHIP in stem cell transplantation and biology" Publications
November 19
November 26	Dr. Howard Petrie	Sloan-Kettering Institute	John Kearney	T lymphocyte differentiation Publications
December
December 3
December 10
December 17

2003
Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title/Area of Interest
January
January 7	Dr. Richard Goldsby	Department of Biology Amherst College	John Kearney	Immunoglobulin genes of ruminants Publications
January 14
January 21
Monday January 27	Dr. Olaf Schneewind	Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology Chair, Committee on Microbiology The University of Chicago	Janet Yother	"Surface Protein Assembly and Function in Gram-positive Bacterial Pathogens" Publications
January 28 CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar 10 AM West Pavilion Room E	Dr. George Stark	Lerner Research Institute The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Tom Broker	Signal transduction, p53, cytokines Publications
February
February 4 Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology	Dr. Zhixin "Jason" Zhang	University of Alabama at Birmingham	Max Cooper	"Molecular Regulation of Repertoire Formation during Human B Cell Development" Publications
February 11
February 18
February 25	Dr. Polly Roy	University of Alabama at Birmingham London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Cindy Luongo	"Journey to the core of emerging Bluetongue Virus" Publications
March
March 4
March 11	Dr. Reina Mebius	Vrije Universiteit	Chris Klug	"Molecular and cellular aspects of lymph node formation" Publications
March 14 Friday 1:15 PM	Dr. Steve Projan	Director of Antibacterial Research Wyeth Research	Janet Yother	"Bacterial Gene Chips for fun and profit" Publications
March 18	Dr. Fitnat Yildiz	Department of Environmental Toxicology University of California, Santa Cruz	Chris Klug	"Environmental survival of Vibrio cholerae: Role of phase variation and biofilm formation" Publications
March 20 Thursday 4PM The UAB Program in Immunology	Dr Wayne Yokoyama	Washington University School of Medicine Howard Hughes Medical Institute	David Chaplin	"Specific Natural Killer Cell Responses to Virus Infection " Publications
March 25	Dr. Liisa Selin	Department of Pathology University of Massachusetts Medical School	Allan Zajac	Viral immunology/immunopathology Publications
April
April 1	Dr. Phong Le	Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy Loyola University Medical Center	Lou Justement	Thymic epithelial cell biology Publications
April 8 CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar	Dr. Scott Emr	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine University of California San Diego	David Aiello	Phosphoinositide signaling in membrane transport Publications
April 15 Co-Sponsored by the Department of Pathology	Dr. Nicholas Crispe	Department of Microbiology and Immunology David H. Smith Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology University of Rochester Medical Center	Peter Burrows Casey Weaver	T cell development Publications
April 22	Dr. Thomas Mustelin	Laboratory of Signal Transduction The Burnham Institute	Lou Justement	"Protein tyrosine phosphatases: from common themes to unexpected functions" Publications
April 29 Bertram Marx Lecture Noon	Dr. Peter Doherty	Department of Immunology St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	David Chaplin	"How we deal with virus infections" Publications
May
May 6
May 13	Dr. Michael Bevan	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Department of Immunology University of Washington	Microbiology Graduate Students John Bates	Cytotoxic T cells Publications
May 20	Dr. Kerry Campbell	Fox Chase Cancer Center	Lou Justement	"Mechanisms to silence or provoke NK cells through killer cell Ig-like receptors (KIR)" Publications
Wednesday May 28 CMB Distinguished Scholars Seminar CANCELED	Dr. George Daley	Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Jane Zhang	Hematopoietic stem cells Publications
June
June 3 Co-sponsored by Merck & Co.	Dr. Marc Rothenberg	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Prescott Atkinson	"State of the Science: Emerging Issues in Airway Inflammation" Publications
June 23 Monday West Pavilion Boardroom Co-sponsored by the Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Comprehensive Cancer Center	Dr Robert Schreiber	Department of Pathology and Immunology Washington University	David Chaplin Kevin Harris	"The 3 E's of Cancer Immunoediting: Elimination, Equilibrium and Escape" Publications
July
July 15	Dr. Attila Miseta	University of Pécs	David Bedwell	"Calcium signaling and phosphoglucomutase activity in lithium treated cells" Publications

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Microbiology Seminar Series 2002 - 2003

Microbiology Seminar Series
2002 - 2003